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What comes after imageboards and memes, from a literary perspective?
The Day of the Rope
Smearing shit on the walls of your prison cell
This guy is a living single topic meme
What are your favorite fairy tales/traditional stories, lit? That is, old stories that were passed down and have no designated author.
Das Nibelungenlied.
I'm pretty knowledgable about it, if you have any questions ask away. (As long as it isn't about which english translation to read or whatever.)
>[,,,] the total scab-free solidarity and performative silence that struck floor-shows and soundstages from Desert to NJ coast for over half a year until equitable compensation-formulae on certain late-millenial phone-order restrospective TV-advertised So-You-Don't-Forget-Order-Before-Midnight-Tonight-type records and CDs were agreed on by Management.
Fuck you DFW you incredbly up-your-ass bandana'd asshole.
>>7568233
I wonder how much if Infinite Jest he actually proofread or if he was just churning out page after page of hyphenated smartass quips about society without giving them a second thought.
Virtue ethics has the strongest critique of liberal modernity. Western society is in decline because they've forgotten Aristotle and the virtues. The enlightenment was a mistake. Emotivist culture (ex. SJWs) is a direct result of Nietzsche's response to the ethics of the Enlightenment. Aristotle is the only philosopher who can go beyond post-modern relativism.
>babbys first macintyre
Virtue ethics are some of the most popular books ever sold and arguable the most influential philosophy of the last 40 years along with capitalist thought.
It's just people don't like to talk about Ayn Rand like she has any influence.
So, what is it to be done, according to Lacan?
this *tha-whump*
>>7568105
"You are pathetic and will be alone forever, now give me my five cents!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aqGYYBwKbQ
Based Lacan.
Does /lit/ like Lord Dunsany?
Personally. he's my favorite poet. I like his prose, and the imagery he conveys. It's funny, that I don't particularly like Lovecraft, but the few things by him I do like are his stories and poems that he admitted himself (and are obvious to everyone else, regardless of his admittance) are Dunsany-inspired.
Works from him I particularly enjoy are:
The Kith of the Elf-Folk
The Doom of La Traviata
The Beggars
The Unhappy Body
Where would you recommend I start? Has to be fairly short.
>>7568337
Start with Your Prodigious Engine
>>7568337
Well, all of his works are short stories and poems, so ideally, you could start with anything from Dunsany.
Was he like that?
He looked like a fake ass person to me.
He reminds me of the Japanese.
This movie fucking sucked on movie terms.
It fucking sucked in realistically portraying dfw terms as well. People will walk away from the movie with completely the wrong impression about who dfw was, both in terms of what he really cared about and how he acted.
The other actor sucked as well.
>>7568644
Every time I see that no talent faggot act I'm reminded how good of a director the Finch is.
>Me:
Dreams an Stones by Magdalena Tulli
>Good?
Yes. It feels like a different take on Invisible Cities, as an architectural chronicle. Less colourful, more focused, more from the inanimate side. The english translation sometimes seems to struggle with conveying the poetry, but in abstraction it's fine.
>Parallel Stories
>It was okay. Despite the length, I finished it in about a week. It was peculiarly accesible.
Is this worth reading? Is Foucault in general worth delving into, or a waste of time?
Of course it is
If you're not in academia, do not read theory.
I have not read pic related, but Foucault is worth reading. He spent a lot of time researching the obscure, mundane facts of major institutions and you can benefit from his hard work by reading his books. hooray! as for his conclusions, and his "rigor" it is up to you as a reasonable scholar to sort through the trash. madness and civilization is a very entertaining book.
post backlogs
anons help decide what to read next
independent thinkers not welcome
i'll start with my pleb supreme:
>paradise lost
>a portrait of the artist
>the house on the borderland
>ancient sorceries + other wierd stories
>dune
>>7567866
nice dubs. throw your back log away, none of those are any good.
>no girl ever twisted your nips
>a beautiful piece of classical art
>hee hee let's take a funny sexy picture with it and put it on Snapchat
literally everything wrong with modernity
Was anybody else upset that he didn't mention /lit/ in this talk about learning on the internet? He mentions Reddit and Tumblr. I have greatly, intellectually benefited from browsing /lit/ the past few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDGlcxYrhQ [Embed]
>>7567764
No, because there is nothing to be learned from /lit/.
The discussions are memes, and if not they are trash.
The books are well-known already and any literary magazine or newspaper with a culture section talks about them and their authors.
/lit/ only says what people with high status in the literary community says, and only praises what these people praise as well.
fuck off
/lit/ is where you go when you already know things retard
Where to go after the greeks?
Parlay with Polybius
Romans, and then Back to the Romans Part 2: Renaissance.
Ancient Greeks (750 - 490 B.C.) --> Classical Greeks (490 - 323 B.C) --> Hellenize Greeks (323 - 146 B.C) -- > Romans and Romanized Greeks (254 B.C. - 18 A.D.) -- > Silver Age Latin (18 A.D - 180 AD) + Early Christian Writers (45 - 325 A.D) --> Christianize Rome (306 - 476) --> Middle Ages (476 - 1321) --> Renaissance --> Fuck all
Why are these books so good?
Roadsters.
I read a lot of Hardy Boys when I was younger and liked them. Nancy Drew was alright also.
Does that cover have a lot of subtext?
>>7568108
Yes. Also the first 58 books published by Grosset & Dunlap are the best. I regret selling my collection so much.
Mein kampf is pretty good, right guys?
Right.
I've noticed peoples criticism of mein kampf is almost exactly the same as what people say about Ayn Rand.
I've not read either, but I will hazard the guess most of this shit is said by people who have not read it and are just assblasted at the ideas they assume are in the books.
Watch for shit like:
>I'm not offended by the ideas, I'm just offended by the bad writing!
>Rambling
>Barely coherent
>Wears its bias on its...
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>>7567693
>le capitalist Hitler loving Nazi man
Calm down Adolf Rand
hey /lit/
do you know any podcast completely british? they can read books or whatever, the point is being totally british.
I'd like to improve my capacity as a listener (since I'm not a native speaker) the problem is, American is so much easier to me than Brit, and I found so many "british" podcast that has only the host as one, then every single time the guest is American.
thank you kindly
pic unrelated, but It's a good book
Not your personal librarian
